Faust seems to have exerted a big influence on Star Wars. You know, the "give up your soul for immortality" or something.

As a matter of history, the Fourteenth Amendment was not understood to ban segregation on the basis of race.

It is even possible that desirable redistribution is more likely to occur through climate change policy than otherwise, or to be accomplished more effectively through climate policy than through direct foreign aid.

A lot of people are focused on climate change as a defining challenge of our time. A lot of people think it is a non-problem, at least in the United States.

The 'cash for clunkers' program was a big success in part because it gave people the sense that the economy was moving.

Once we know that people are human and have some Homer Simpson in them, then there's a lot that can be done to manipulate them.

I think it's a very firm part of human nature that if you surround yourself with like-minded people, you'll end up thinking more extreme versions of what you thought before.